I think Mum is having as much fun with my new patchwork/quilting obsession as I am – she keeps sending me little packages of fabric to feed my ever-growing stash. Yesterday a parcel arrived from her via Trademe, with this fantastic selection: None of the pieces are huge, but they don’t need to be for…
ven though I’m not actually taking a paper until next semester, I’m still considered part of the Honours class for the entire year, so I’m being invited to all of the class-wide meetings and events. I attended the first this afternoon, the introductory meeting where the Head of Department alternately scares you with how hard…
eeling very proud today – the project I’ve been working on for the last five months or so came to fruition, with the official (soft) launch of Friends of CEISMIC, a scheme where volunteers come in and work on the archive alongside the team. It’s very exciting, as it’s been entirely my project through the…
You know how I said these birds are getting harder? Totally worth it. The individual feathers on its wings look so cool! I think this one’s my favourite yet.
esterday afternoon Lytteltonwitch and I went to see Still Alice, a film about a woman in her 50s who develops early-onset Alzheimers. With a premise like that, it’s not exactly a spoiler to say that you know right from the start the film isn’t going to have a happy ending. And yep, there was a…
I haven’t been posting in-progress pictures of the birds, because the birds themselves are kind of an in-progress for the quilt itself, but I had to post this one, just to show you how complicated they’re starting to get now: Yeah, all those individual pieces (including the two at the top I haven’t done yet)…
emember ages ago Lytteltonwitch and I were down in Alexandra, and I said we’d greatly amused ourselves by walking backwards out of a maze, and I promised to show you a video? And then I didn’t? Well, finally I managed to get the video edited (mainly just removing the “um, I think I’m recording, I’m…
I just noticed something very strange. My last week’s worth of posts only show up when I’m logged in. If I’m not logged in, I can only see posts up until 6 February, even though all of my posts are public. Logged in view of my homepage: Same page, but not logged in: A completely…
was confused last night to hear a strange booming noise in the distance. It sounded like fireworks, but Classical Sparks was last week, so I couldn’t figure out what it would be. I looked out the kitchen window, because sometimes fireworks in town are just visible from there (Hagley Park is about 5 km away…
ust got a call from the builders – they finally got the results back about the asbestos testing (only a week after they said they’d have them…) The bad news is, they found asbestos. The good news is, it’s going to be a simple job to remove the offending panel, so they’re going to do…